Arts
Vienna State Opera, ditched by star conductors, soldiers on
VIENNA - Not many opera seasons start off as dramatically as this year's did at the Vienna State Opera with two star conductors storming off, but the opera's director Dominique Meyer wants to put that behind him.
Giant 'face-scape' portrait opens on Washington's National Mall
WASHINGTON - A composite landscape portrait of American men, so big it is best seen from a low-flying airplane, went on display on Washington's National Mall on Wednesday.
Russian theater director Lyubimov dies at 97
MOSCOW - Russian theater director Yuri Lyubimov, who was stripped of his citizenship by the Soviet Union after criticizing its leadership in the foreign press, has died at the age of 97, state media reported.
Rome opera house sacks orchestra, chorus as arts funding shrivels
ROME - Rome's opera house has sacked nearly 200 members of its permanent orchestra and chorus as Italy's worst economic crisis for decades chokes state spending on the arts.
UK council removes 'racist' Banksy immigration mural
LONDON - A local council has removed a mural by British artist Banksy following a complaint it was racist, a week before voters in the area decide whether to elect Britain's first lawmaker from a party opposing mass immigration.
Paris Picasso museum finally set to open after turbulent renovation
PARIS - Pablo Picasso once boasted: "Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
Japan art market boosted by Abenomics after years in the doldrums
TOKYO - Just a decade ago, a lithograph by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama sold for several hundred dollars at best. But now her pieces, some just the size of a magazine, can fetch as much as $74,000.
Philippines recovers eight paintings from Marcos family
MANILA - Philippine authorities recovered on Tuesday more than a dozen paintings, including a work by Pablo Picasso, from an office and residences of lawmaker Imelda Marcos, a day after an anti-corruption court ordered their seizure.
Turner prize candidates put emphasis on video, image manipulation
LONDON - Images ranging from film of defaced sexually explicit photos in art books in a Tokyo library to a picture of an Irish Republican Army fighter silhouetted against a burning building feature in works of the Turner Prize finalists unveiled on Monday.
China's Ai Weiwei brings dissident message to Churchill castle
WOODSTOCK England - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei could not be at Blenheim Palace for the opening of an exhibition of his work on Friday, but his message came through loud and clear. Earlier this week a massive show including Ai's depictions in Lego of 176 activists and dissidents, from Nelson Mandela to Edward Snowden, was unveiled at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco.
'Edge of Eternity' retains perch on top of U.S. bestsellers list
NEW YORK - "Edge of Eternity," the conclusion of author Ken Follett's 20th-century trilogy, held on to the top spot on the U.S. bestsellers list on Thursday for the second consecutive week.
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